Seattle Picks: Graphic Novels
Enjoy this selection of recent graphic novels and comics selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. Annotations by staff, or as cited. (February 2024)
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House on Fire
Set in a small, industrial post-apocalyptic town, this black, white and orange sketch illustration follows an increasingly desperate man willing to risk it all for his ill wife.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Ducks
Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) delivers a masterpiece graphic memoir: an immersive, devastating portrait of the two years she worked at Fort McMurray and nearby oil sands in northern Canada. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Fine
In Ewing's ambitious debut, they conduct and draw dozens of interviews over a decade to chart the murky waters of gender. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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It Won't Always Be Like This
Gharib's empathetic second graphic memoir, a follow-up to I Was Their American Dream, covers culture clashes, family clashes, and identity mash-ups, set in the late '90s to the early 2000s. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Bear
This is a wordless, allegorical graphic novel about depression. Set in a forest, it follows a bear whose head is stuck in a cone and a rabbit who won't give up trying to help.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Mystic Debris
Whizbang, front man of his band, Fascinator, gets ousted by his band right before their tour. Then his pregnant wife gives birth and leaves him with the baby. He doesn't want a job... so how will he adult?
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Drip Drip
Any time Mako sees something dirty, whether literally or figuratively, she gets a heavy nosebleed... how can she ever find an intimate partner in this circumstance?
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Who Will Make the Pancakes
This collection finds Kelso (Queen of the Black Black) exploring the dynamic between interpersonal relationships and interior experience with skill and insight equal to or greater than anyone currently creating works of short fiction in any format or genre. (Library Journal)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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The Gull Yettin
This very colorful, wordless graphic novel follows a young boy whose house is set on fire. A gull saves his life and they flee on a boat which begins the boy's adventure in a strange land.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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What Is Home, Mum?
Khan debuts with a deeply introspective, elegantly rendered graphic memoir about her experiences, faith, and family in the South Asian diaspora community of East London. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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